Matteo Gilebbi

Matteo Gilebbi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College, with affiliations in Comparative Literature and the Environmental Humanities Initiative. His academic career spans institutions like Duke University (2009–2017) and Dartmouth (2017–present), focusing on Italian literature, cinema, and posthumanist theory.

Research Interests:

• Environmental humanities
• Ecocriticism
• Animal studies
• Posthumanism
• Italian cinema
• Philosophy and literature

Recent Publications explore the Anthropocene in Sorrentino’s films, waste narratives in Mediterranean contexts, and the human-animal divide in Italian poetry and cinema. His work bridges ecocriticism with new materialism and feminist theory.

Academic Leadership: Co-director of the Anthropocene Reading Group, emphasizing interdisciplinary environmental scholarship.

Education:

• PhD in Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A. in Narrative and New Media, University of Urbino
• Laurea in Philosophy, University of Urbino